After a long run of relatively trouble free travel, though you couldn’t ever tell from my blood pressure, I finally whiffed one this morning. I forgot/underestimated the amount of people traveling at 5 am. The security line was monumental, although it really only took me 30 minutes ot traverse. The whole thing [...]
Some years ago we brought the concept of a beat writer in to Fedora, as a way of merging a tradition from writing with a tradition from open source. By breaking down a monolothic document such as the Fedora release notes in to modular chunks, multiple people can collaborate on the whole document while [...]
This process is really simple:
You write content here.
We edit the heck out of it.
For Alpha and Beta releases, we make a one-page here.
For RC to final, we take all that writing and editing to make up one set of rump-bumping release notes.
People, please! You know something already that should be in the Fedora 10 [...]
A bunch of us Fedorans are going to be at OSCON next week. The cool Fedora booth! Lots of open source ISVs to ask, “Why aren’t you in Fedora yet?” Free stuff! Hairy booth babes! A trip to the Oregon State University Open Source Labs!!
Aside from the Fedora work, I’ll [...]
Yesterday I was walking downtown and passed a big “FREE” pile that was leftover from a garage sale. There was a case with seven boxes of 50 each 1.44 MiB floppies. That is around 500 MiB of storage across 350 floppy disks. At the same time, there in my pocket were two USB flash drives, [...]
For some reason I thought that I had published a presentation with an EPEL package count that was wildly inaccurate, like 3000 for el4 and 7000 for el5. I could be recalling incorrectly, maybe I’ve always gotten that one right. If you have seen something from me that reports numbers that are high [...]
Luke Macken caught me for a few minutes last weekend, after he had talked with Greg about skillset capturing. Luke wanted to talk about the join page work that Mo and I lead last year, and how to merge that with the idea of capturing skills of people when they join, then funneling directly to [...]
In the talks that I was participating in on Saturday’s FUDCon BarCamp, I wrote notes and linked them from the final schedule. Unlike other types of conferences, there tend to be far, far fewer prepared slides for BarCamp sessions than typical presentation situations. I’m sure there are some slides that people have to [...]
Some memes surround activities as does fog by the Bay. Flying over the Sierra, Lake Tahoe about to slip below, it’s the kind of time where a disconnected writer is tempted to journal even without a blog client. This infamous travelogue. That’s right, a plain text editor (/usr/bin/emacs for me) is all [...]
This week I answered a question about lost content on the new wiki after the migration, from a contributor concerned about content randomly lost across the wiki and no one knowing it is gone. His suggestion was programmatic, that is, fix the migration script for where it dropped content and do some kind of [...]
